It Was Just an Accident is a reckoning with the Iranian regime
Jafar Panahi’s experience as a prisoner makes his film a potent political statement
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Pillion is the film Fifty Shades failed to be
Harry Lighton’s debut feature tests the boundaries of queer cinema without a hint of judgement
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The masochistic violence of Sisu: Road to Revenge
Jalmari Helander’s new film opens a new frontier
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Danel Elpeleg: My grandfather, the Israeli military governor
Zvi Elpeleg presided over Palestinian towns in central Israel. Now his filmmaker granddaughter reckons with his legacy
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It ain’t easy being George Clooney
In Jay Kelly, the Hollywood smoothie plays an actor very much like himself, albeit longing for a second chance at…
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Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s film is an extraordinary adaptation of an extreme story about a life in meltdown
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Bugonia shows Yorgos Lanthimos’ mastery of the grotesque
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons match each other in ferocity
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Jeremy Allen White is wasted as Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is let down by simplistic storytelling
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After the Hunt offers debate but no engagement
Luca Guadagnino’s talky Me Too drama sacrifices interest to academic point-scoring
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Good Boy: horror in a dog’s life
Ben Leonberg’s directorial debut, told from a canine’s-eye view, gives new, tail-wagging life to a predictable genre
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Downton Abbey might just save the Tories
The latest film in the series is magnificently unabashed soft-Tory propaganda
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Twilight is immortal
Twenty years after the book, Stephenie Meyer still knows what we ache for
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A House of Dynamite implodes in its third act
Kathryn Bigelow’s latest action film is nicely edge-of-the-seat – until Idris Elba makes his appearance
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One Battle After Another is serious about racial politics
Behind the silliness and relentless action of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest thriller is a timely statement about America’s rightward drift.
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Cillian Murphy’s Steve captures fragility, guilt and compassion
This tense, 24-hour boarding-school drama is anchored by the actor’s commanding performance
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The Thursday Murder Club: how not to adapt a book
Netflix’s film misses the joy of Richard Osman’s novel – and now no one will make another version
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Spinal Tap and Downton Abbey refuse to bow out
Rock ’n’ roll will never die? It’s still a baby compared to the English class system.
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On Swift Horses is a plodding take on queer desire
Daniel Minahan’s film, set among gamblers in repressive postwar America, promises subversion but risks very little.
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The Roses: a failed story of a failed marriage
Jay Roach’s reimagined The War of the Roses updates the couple’s casus belli, but their relationship is never plausible.
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Eddington derails the western
The old certainties about genre are as blurred as the world.
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